Noyes Translation
1869 by George Noyes
Jer 1:1 ¶ The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests, who dwelt in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin;
Jer 1:2 to whom the word of Jehovah came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign;
Jer 1:3 to whom it also came in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the carrying away of Jerusalem into captivity in the fifth month.
Jer 1:4 ¶ The word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Jer 1:5 Before I formed thee in the womb, I knew thee; and before thou camest into the world, I chose thee; I appointed thee to be a prophet to the nations.
Jer 1:6 Then said I, Alas, O Lord Jehovah! Behold, I am not able to speak; for I am a child.
Jer 1:7 But Jehovah said to me, Say not, I am a child; but go to whomever I send thee, and speak whatever I command thee!
Jer 1:8 Be not afraid of them! For I am with thee to help thee, saith Jehovah.
Jer 1:9 Then Jehovah put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. Jehovah also said to me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
Jer 1:10 Behold, I have set thee this day over nations and over kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to overthrow; and to build, and to plant.
Jer 1:11 ¶ Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, I see a rod of almond–wood.
Jer 1:12 And Jehovah said to me, Thou hast seen right; for I am watchful over my word to perform it.
Jer 1:13 And the word of Jehovah came to me a second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a boiling pot, whose face is turned from the north.
Jer 1:14 And Jehovah said to me, From the north shall evil break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Jer 1:15 For, behold, I will call all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north, saith Jehovah; and they shall come, and shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all her walls around, and against all the cities of Judah.
Jer 1:16 And I will pronounce my judgments against them for all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the work of their own hands.
Jer 1:17 Thou, therefore, gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee; be not afraid of them, lest I confound thee before them.
Jer 1:18 For, behold, I make thee this day a fortified city, and a pillar of iron, and a wall of brass against all this land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
Jer 1:19 They shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee; for I will be with thee, saith Jehovah, to help thee.
Jer 2:1 ¶ The word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Jer 2:2 Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, Thus saith Jehovah: I remember the kindness shown thee in thy youth, The love with which I espoused thee, When thou wast led by me through the wilderness, Through a land that was not sown.
Jer 2:3 Israel was a sacred thing to Jehovah, His first ripe fruit. All that devoured him were held guilty; Evil came upon them, saith Jehovah.
Jer 2:4 Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, And all the families of the house of Israel!
Jer 2:5 Thus saith Jehovah: What fault did your fathers find in me, That they went far from me, And walked after vanity, and practised folly?
Jer 2:6 They said not, Where is Jehovah, Who brought us up from the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and pits, Through a land of drought and deathlike gloom, Through a land which no man passed through, And where no man dwelt?
Jer 2:7 I brought you to a land of fruitful fields, To eat the fruit thereof, and the good thereof; But when ye had come in, ye defiled my land, And made my inheritance an abomination.
Jer 2:8 The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? And the teachers of the law knew me not; The rulers also rebelled against me; The prophets prophesied in the name of Baal, And walked after things that could not profit.
Jer 2:9 ¶ Therefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah; Yea, with your children’s children will I contend.
Jer 2:10 For pass over to the islands of the Chittaeans, and see; Send ye to Kedar, and inform yourselves well; And see if such a thing hath been done!
Jer 2:11 Hath any nation changed their gods, even those that are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which cannot profit.
Jer 2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this! Shudder, and be amazed! saith Jehovah.
Jer 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; Me have they forsaken, the fountain of living water, And they have hewn out for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jer 2:14 ¶ Is Israel a slave? Is he a home–born servant? Why then hath he become a spoil?
Jer 2:15 The young lions roar over him; They lift up their voice; They have made his land a desolation; His cities are burned so as to be without an inhabitant.
Jer 2:16 Even the sons of Noph and Tahpanhes have consumed the crown of thy head.
Jer 2:17 Hath not this come upon thee, Because thou didst forsake Jehovah thy God, When he would have led thee in the way?
Jer 2:18 And now what hast thou to do with the way of Egypt, To drink the waters of the Nile? Or what hast thou to do with the way of Assyria, To drink the waters of the Euphrates?
Jer 2:19 Thy wickedness shall chasten thee, And thy transgressions reprove thee; And thou shalt know and see that it is an evil and bitter thing That thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, And that the fear of me is not with thee, Saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
Jer 2:20 ¶ Of old hast thou broken thy yoke, And burst thy bands, And said, "I will not be in subjection!" For upon every high hill, And under every green tree, Hast thou reclined, playing the harlot.
Jer 2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, Wholly a genuine seed; How then art thou changed to the degenerate shoot of a strange vine?
Jer 2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, And take thee much soap, Yet is thine iniquity black before me, saith Jehovah.
Jer 2:23 How canst thou say, "I am not polluted," "I have not gone after Baals"? Behold thy way in the valley! Know what thou hast done, A swift young camel, traversing her ways.
Jer 2:24 A wild ass, used to the wilderness, That in her desire snuffeth up the wind, In her occasion, who can turn her aside? All that seek her do not weary themselves; In her month they will find her.
Jer 2:25 Withhold thy feet from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst! But thou sayest, There is no remedy! No! For I love strangers, And after them I will go.
Jer 2:26 As a thief is ashamed when he is taken, So is the house of Israel ashamed, They, their kings, and their princes, And their priests, and their prophets;
Jer 2:27 That say to a stock, Thou art my father, And to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth! For they turn the back to me, and not the face. Yet in the time of their trouble they say, Arise and save us!
Jer 2:28 But where are thy gods, which thou hast made thee? Let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble! For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah!
Jer 2:29 ¶ Why do ye enter into controversy with me? Ye have all rebelled against me, saith Jehovah.
Jer 2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; They would receive no correction; Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, Like a destroying lion.
Jer 2:31 O generation! Behold ye the word of Jehovah! Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of darkness? Why then say my people, "We will rove at pleasure, We will come no more to thee"?
Jer 2:32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her belt? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number!
Jer 2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? On this account hast thou accustomed thy ways to wickedness.
Jer 2:34 Upon thy skirts is found the blood of the innocent poor, Whom thou didst not find committing violence.
Jer 2:35 But notwithstanding all this, thou sayest, I am innocent; Surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, Because thou sayest, "I have not sinned."
Jer 2:36 Why dost thou run so eagerly, changing thy way? By Egypt also shalt thou be put to shame, Even as thou hast been put to shame by Assyria.
Jer 2:37 From Egypt also shalt thou go forth With thy hands upon thy head. For Jehovah hath rejected the objects of thy confidence, Therefore shalt thou not prosper in them.
Jer 3:1 ¶ It is said, if a man put away his wife, And she go from him, and become another man’s, Shall he return to her again? Shall not that land be polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; And shalt thou return to me, saith Jehovah?
Jer 3:2 Lift up thine eyes to the high places, and see! Where hast thou not been defiled? In the ways hast thou sat waiting, As the Arabian in the desert, And hast polluted the land by thy lewdness and thy wickedness.
Jer 3:3 And although the showers have been withholden, And there hath been no latter rain, Yet thou hast had a harlot’s forehead; Thou hast refused to be ashamed.
Jer 3:4 Wilt thou not from this time cry to me, Thou art my father, Yea, the friend of my youth art thou?
Jer 3:5 Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it forevermore? Behold, thus dost thou speak, But thou doest evil with all thy might.
Jer 3:6 ¶ Jehovah said to me, in the time of King Josiah, Hast thou heard what rebellious Israel hath done? She hath gone upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
Jer 3:7 And I said, after she had done all these things, Return thou to me! But she returned not. And her faithless sister Judah saw it.
Jer 3:8 And I saw, when, for all the adulteries which rebellious Israel had committed, I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, that her faithless sister Judah was not afraid, but went and played the harlot also herself.
Jer 3:9 And when by the fame of her lewdness she had polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and wood,
Jer 3:10 yet for all this did not her faithless sister Judah return to me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith Jehovah.
Jer 3:11 Then said Jehovah to me, Rebellious Israel is less guilty than faithless Judah.
Jer 3:12 ¶ Go and proclaim these words toward the north:––Return, O rebellious Israel, saith Jehovah! I will not turn a frowning face upon you; For I am merciful, saith Jehovah, I retain not anger forever.
Jer 3:13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, That thou hast rebelled against Jehovah thy God, And hast roved about to strangers Under every green tree, And hast not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah.
Jer 3:14 Return, ye rebellious children! saith Jehovah; Though I have rejected you, Yet will I receive you again, One from a city, and two from a nation, And I will bring you to Zion.
Jer 3:15 And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, Who shall feed you with wisdom and discretion.
Jer 3:16 And when ye shall have multiplied and increased in the land, saith Jehovah, Then shall ye no more speak of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, Nor shall it come into your mind. None shall remember it; None shall care for it; It shall not be made any more.
Jer 3:17 For then shall Jerusalem be called the throne of Jehovah, And all the nations shall resort to it; They shall resort to Jehovah, to Jerusalem, And shall no more walk after the perverseness of their evil hearts.
Jer 3:18 In those days shall the house of Judah unite themselves with the house of Israel, And they shall come together from the north country, To the land which I caused your fathers to inherit.
Jer 3:19 Then I said, how will I place thee among my children, And give thee a pleasant land, A goodly inheritance among the hosts of nations! And I said, Thou wilt call me thy father; Thou wilt not turn aside from following me.
Jer 3:20 ¶ Yet as a woman is faithless to her husband, So have ye been faithless to me, O house of Israel! saith Jehovah.
Jer 3:21 A voice is heard upon the hills, The weeping and supplications of the children of Israel! For they have perverted their way; They have forgotten Jehovah their God.
Jer 3:22 Return, O revolted children! I will heal your rebellion. Behold, we come to thee, For thou art Jehovah our God!
Jer 3:23 Truly in vain from the hills, In vain from the mountains do we seek abundance; Only from Jehovah our God cometh salvation for Israel.
Jer 3:24 For the things of shame have devoured the substance of our fathers from our youth, Their sheep and their oxen, Their sons and their daughters.
Jer 3:25 We lie down in our shame, And our ignominy covereth us; For we have sinned against Jehovah our God, We and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, And have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.
Jer 4:1 ¶ If thou wilt return to me, O Israel, saith Jehovah, Thou shalt return [to thy land]; If thou wilt put away thy abominations from my sight, Thou shalt no more be a wanderer [in a foreign land].
Jer 4:2 If thou wilt swear, As Jehovah liveth! In truth, in justice, and in righteousness, Then shall the nations bless themselves by thee, And in thee shall they glory.
Jer 4:3 ¶ Thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up your fallow ground, And sow not among thorns!
Jer 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah; Yea, circumcise your hearts, Ye men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Lest, for the evil of your doings, My fury break forth like fire, And burn so that none can quench it.
Jer 4:5 ¶ Declare ye in Judah, And proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land; Cry ye aloud, and say, Gather yourselves together, And let us go into the fortified cities;
Jer 4:6 Set up a standard toward Zion, Flee, make no stand! For I am about to bring evil from the north, Even great destruction.
Jer 4:7 The lion goeth up from his thicket, The destroyer of nations is on his way; He goeth forth from his place to make thy land desolate; Thy cities shall be laid waste so as to be without an inhabitant.
Jer 4:8 For this cause gird on sackcloth, Lament and howl! For the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us.
Jer 4:9 In that day, saith Jehovah, Shall the heart of the king perish, And the heart of the princes; The priests shall be amazed, And the prophets confounded.
Jer 4:10 Then said I, Alas, O Lord Jehovah! Surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem; Thou hast said, "Ye shall have peace"; And the sword reacheth to the very life!
Jer 4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A dry wind cometh from the hills of the desert, It cometh toward my people, Not to fan, nor to cleanse.
Jer 4:12 Yea, a wind stronger than this shall come; Now will I myself give sentence against them.
Jer 4:13 Behold, he cometh up like clouds, And his chariots are like a whirlwind; His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are laid waste!
Jer 4:14 Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, That thou mayst be saved! How long shall thy evil devices lodge within thee?
Jer 4:15 For a voice proclaimeth tidings from Dan, And announceth calamity from mount Ephraim.
Jer 4:16 Proclaim ye to the nations, Behold, publish ye to Jerusalem, "Watchmen are coming from a far country, And lift their voice against the cities of Judah."
Jer 4:17 Like keepers of fields are they round about her Because she hath rebelled against me, saith Jehovah.
Jer 4:18 Thy way and thy doings have brought this upon thee; This is the fruit of thy wickedness; It is bitter; it reacheth to thy heart.
Jer 4:19 ¶ O my breast, my breast! I am pained in the walls of my heart; My heart trembleth within me; I cannot be silent; For thou hearest, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war!
Jer 4:20 There is a cry of destruction upon destruction; Yea, the whole land is laid waste; Suddenly are my tents destroyed, And my canopies in an instant.
Jer 4:21 How long shall I see the standard, Hear the sound of the trumpet?
Jer 4:22 My people is foolish, They have no regard to me; Stupid children are they, And have no understanding; They are wise to do evil, But for doing good they have no knowledge.
Jer 4:23 I look to the earth, and lo! emptiness and desolation; To the heavens, and there is no light.
Jer 4:24 I look to the mountains, and lo! they tremble, And all the hills shake.
Jer 4:25 I look, and lo! there is not a man, And all the birds of heaven are fled.
Jer 4:26 I look, and lo! Carmel is a desert, And all its cities are thrown down, Before the presence of Jehovah, Before the heat of his anger.
Jer 4:27 For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be desolate, Yet will I not make a full end.
Jer 4:28 Therefore shall the earth mourn, And the heavens above be black, Because I have spoken, and I will not repent; I have purposed, and I will not recede from it.
Jer 4:29 At the noise of the horsemen and bowmen every city fleeth; They go into thickets, And climb up upon the rocks; All the cities are forsaken, And not a man dwelleth in them.
Jer 4:30 And thou, destined to perish, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe thyself in scarlet, And deck thyself with ornaments of gold, And rend thine eyes with paint, In vain dost thou adorn thyself; Thy lovers despise thee; They seek thy life.
Jer 4:31 I hear a cry, as of a woman in travail, Anguish, as of her that bringeth forth her first child. The voice of the daughter of Zion. She sobbeth, she spreadeth out her hands, "Ah! woe is me! I am dying by murderers!"
Jer 5:1 ¶ Run ye through the streets of Jerusalem, [saith Jehovah,] And see now, and know, and seek in her broad places If ye can find a single man, If there be one that doeth justice, That seeketh uprightness, And I will forgive her.
Jer 5:2 Yea, though they say, "As Jehovah liveth!" Yet do they swear falsely.
Jer 5:3 Are not thine eyes upon the truth, O Jehovah! Thou hast smitten them, but they have not grieved; Thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction; They have made their faces harder than a rock; They have refused to return.
Jer 5:4 Then I said, These are only the poor; They are foolish, because they know not the way of Jehovah, The law of their God.
Jer 5:5 I will get me to the great ones, And I will speak to them; For they know the way of Jehovah, The law of their God. But these also have together broken the yoke; They have burst the bands.
Jer 5:6 Therefore the lion out of the forest shall slay them, And the evening wolf shall destroy them. The leopard shall keep watch upon their cities; Every one that goeth out from them shall be torn in pieces; Because their transgressions are multiplied, Their rebellions are increased.
Jer 5:7 How can I pardon thee for this? [saith Jehovah;] Thy children have forsaken me, And sworn by them that are no gods. I have fed them to the full, yet do they commit adultery, And assemble themselves in crowds in the house of the harlot.
Jer 5:8 They are as well–fed horses in the morning; Every one neigheth after his neighbor’s wife.
Jer 5:9 Shall I not punish for these things, saith Jehovah? Shall I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?
Jer 5:10 ¶ Go ye up upon her walls and destroy! Yet make ye not a full end! Take ye away her branches, For they belong not to Jehovah!
Jer 5:11 For they have proved false to me, The house of Israel and the house of Judah, saith Jehovah.
Jer 5:12 They have denied Jehovah, And have said, "It is not He; Evil shall not come upon us, Nor shall we see sword or famine.
Jer 5:13 The prophets are but wind, And the word is not in them; Thus may it happen to them!"
Jer 5:14 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, God of hosts: Because ye say such things, Behold, I will make thy words in thy mouth fire, And this people wood, And it shall devour them.
Jer 5:15 Behold, I will bring against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah; It is a mighty nation; It is an ancient nation; A nation whose language thou dost not know, And whose words thou canst not understand.
Jer 5:16 Their quiver is like an open sepulchre; They are all mighty men.
Jer 5:17 They shall consume thy harvest and thy bread; They shall consume thy sons and thy daughters; They shalt consume thy sheep and thy oxen; They shall consume thy vine and thy fig–tree; They shall destroy with the sword thy fortified cities, In which thou placest thy trust.
Jer 5:18 Yet even in those days, saith Jehovah, I will not make a full end with you.
Jer 5:19 And when they shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah our God brought all these things upon us? Then shalt thou say to them, "As ye have forsaken me, And served strange gods in your land, So shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours."
Jer 5:20 ¶ Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, And publish it in Judah, saying:
Jer 5:21 Hear ye now this, O foolish people and without understanding, Who have eyes and see not, Who have ears and hear not!
Jer 5:22 Will ye not fear me, saith Jehovah? Will ye not tremble before me, Who appointed the sand a bound to the sea, A perpetual barrier, which it cannot pass? Though the waves thereof toss themselves, Yet do they not prevail, Though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
Jer 5:23 But this people hath a revolting and rebellious heart; They revolt continually.
Jer 5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, Who giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, And secureth to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Jer 5:25 ¶ Your iniquities have turned away these things, And your sins have withholden that which is good from you.
Jer 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men, Who lie on the watch like fowlers; They set a trap that they may catch men.
Jer 5:27 As a cage is full of birds, So are their houses full of fraud. Therefore are they grown great and rich;
Jer 5:28 They have become fat and shine; Yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked; They maintain no cause, No cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; And the right of the needy do they not defend.
Jer 5:29 Shall I not punish for these things, saith Jehovah? Shall I not be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jer 5:30 Astonishing and horrible is that which is done in this land;
Jer 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule under their guidance, And my people love to have it so. But what will ye do in the end of it?
Jer 6:1 ¶ Flee, O ye sons of Benjamin, from Jerusalem, And blow ye the trumpet in Tekoa, And lift up the banner in Beth–haccerem! For evil threateneth from the North; Yea, great destruction.
Jer 6:2 O daughter of Zion, the comely and delicate, Thee have I doomed to destruction!
Jer 6:3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; They shall pitch their tents against her round about; They shall feed each one in his place.
Jer 6:4 "Prepare ye war against her, [shall they say;] Arise, and let us go up at noonday; Alas for us! for the day goeth away, For the shadows of evening are lengthened.
Jer 6:5 Arise, and let us go up by night, And let us destroy her palaces!"
Jer 6:6 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Hew ye down trees, And raise a mound against Jerusalem! She is a city to be punished; She is full of oppression.
Jer 6:7 As a fountain sendeth forth its waters, So she sendeth forth her wickedness. Violence and rapine are heard within her; Before me continually are bruises and wounds.
Jer 6:8 Receive correction, O Jerusalem, Lest my soul be alienated from thee, Lest I make thee a desolation, A land not inhabited!
Jer 6:9 ¶ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine; Turn thy hand like a grape–gatherer again to the baskets!
Jer 6:10 To whom shall I speak? To whom give warning, so that they shall hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, so that they cannot hearken; Behold, the word of Jehovah is to them a derision; They have no delight in it.
Jer 6:11 Therefore I am full of the fury of Jehovah; I am weary of holding it; I will pour it out alike upon the children in the street, And upon the assembly of the young men. Yea, also the husband with the wife shall be taken, The old man, and he that is full of days.
Jer 6:12 Their houses also shall be transferred to others, Their fields and their wives together, For I will stretch out my hand over the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah.
Jer 6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, Every one is greedy of gain; Prophet and priest alike, Every one of them practiseth deceit.
Jer 6:14 They heal the wound of my people slightly, Saying, Peace! peace! when there is no peace.
Jer 6:15 Are they ashamed that they have done abominable things? Nay, they are not at all ashamed; They know not how to blush; Therefore shall they fall with them that fall; At the time when I punish them, They shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.
Jer 6:16 Thus saith Jehovah: Stand ye upon the ways and look; And ask for the old paths, "Where is the good way?" Walk ye in it, and ye shall find for yourselves rest. But they say, We will not walk in it.
Jer 6:17 I have also set watchmen over you, [saying,] Hearken to the sound of the trumpet! But they say, We will not hearken.
Jer 6:18 ¶ Therefore hear, O ye nations, And know, ye assembled multitude, What shall come upon them!
Jer 6:19 Hear thou, O earth! Behold, I bring evil upon this people, The fruit of their devices; Because they have not hearkened to my words, And have even rejected my law.
Jer 6:20 To what purpose is incense brought to me from Sheba, And the sweet–smelling reed from a far country? Your burnt–offerings are not acceptable, Nor are your sacrifices sweet to me.
Jer 6:21 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I lay stumbling–blocks before this people, Upon which fathers and sons shall stumble together, The neighbor and his friend, and shall perish.
Jer 6:22 Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a people cometh from the land of the North; A great nation riseth up from the extremities of the earth.
Jer 6:23 They bear the bow and the spear; They are cruel and show no mercy; Their voice roareth like the sea; And upon horses do they ride, Arrayed as a warrior against thee, O daughter of Zion.
Jer 6:24 We have heard the report thereof; Our hands lose their strength; Anguish hath taken hold of us, Pain, as of a woman in travail.
Jer 6:25 Go not forth into the field, Nor walk ye in the highway! For the sword of the enemy And terror are on every side.
Jer 6:26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, And roll thyself in ashes! Make thee mourning as for an only son, Most bitter lamentation! For suddenly shall the spoiler come upon us.
Jer 6:27 I have set thee, like a tower, for an assayer among my people, That thou mayst know and try their way.
Jer 6:28 They are all stubborn revolters, Slanderers are they, brass and iron; They are all corrupt.
Jer 6:29 The bellows burn; The lead is consumed by the fire; The refiner hath melted in vain, For the bad are not separated.
Jer 6:30 Rejected silver shall men call them, Because Jehovah hath rejected them.
Jer 7:1 ¶ The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying:
Jer 7:2 Stand in the gate of the house of Jehovah, and proclaim these words, and say:––Hear the word of Jehovah, all ye of Judah, Who enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah!
Jer 7:3 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, And I will suffer you to dwell in this place!
Jer 7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, when they say, "The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah are these."
Jer 7:5 Yet if ye will thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, And dispense justice between man and man,
Jer 7:6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, And shed not innocent blood in this place, And go not after other gods to your own hurt,
Jer 7:7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, In the land which I gave to your fathers, For ever and ever.
Jer 7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words without profit.
Jer 7:9 Ye steal, and murder, and commit adultery, And swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, And go after strange gods, which ye know not,
Jer 7:10 And then come and stand before me in this house, Which is called by my name, And say, "We are delivered!" Whilst ye practise all these abominations.
Jer 7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, Become a den for robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, saith Jehovah.
Jer 7:12 But go now to my place, which was in Shiloh, Where I caused my name to dwell at the first, And see what I have done to it On account of the wickedness of my people Israel.
Jer 7:13 And now because ye have done all these works, saith Jehovah, And I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, But ye hearkened not, And I have called to you, But ye answered not,
Jer 7:14 Therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, In which ye place your confidence, And to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, As I have done to Shiloh.
Jer 7:15 I will cast you out from my presence, As I have cast out all your brethren, The whole race of Ephraim.
Jer 7:16 ¶ And as for thee, pray not for this people, Nor lift up a cry or a prayer for them, Nor make intercession to me for them; For I will not hear thee.
Jer 7:17 Seest thou not what they do In the cities of Judah, and the streets of Jerusalem?
Jer 7:18 The sons gather the wood, And the fathers kindle the fire, And the women knead dough, To make cakes for the queen of heaven, And to pour out libations to strange gods, That they may vex me.
Jer 7:19 But do they vex me, saith Jehovah? Do they not rather vex themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?
Jer 7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold my anger and my fury shall be poured out on this place, Upon man and upon beast; Upon the trees of the field, And upon the fruit of the ground; It shall burn and not be quenched.
Jer 7:21 ¶ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt–offerings to your sacrifices, And eat ye the flesh.
Jer 7:22 For I spake not to your fathers, nor commanded them Concerning burnt–offerings and sacrifices, At the time when I brought them out of the land of Egypt;
Jer 7:23 But this command gave I to them: "Hearken," said I, "to my voice, And I will be your God, And ye shall be my people. And walk ye in all the ways which I command you, That it may go well with you."
Jer 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, But walked in the devices and obstinacy of their evil heart, Turning their backs and not their faces toward me.
Jer 7:25 From the day when your fathers came forth from the land of Egypt, Even to this day, I have also sent to you all my servants, the prophets, Daily rising early and sending.
Jer 7:26 But they have not hearkened to me, Nor have they inclined their ear; But they have hardened their neck, And acted more wickedly than their fathers.
Jer 7:27 And when thou shalt speak all these things to them, They will not hearken to thee; And when thou shalt call to them, They will make thee no answer.
Jer 7:28 Therefore shalt thou say to them, This is the nation that hearkeneth not to the voice of Jehovah their God, And taketh no correction; Truth hath failed, and is cut off from their mouth.
Jer 7:29 ¶ Cut off thy locks, O Jerusalem, and cast them away! Set up a lamentation upon the high place! For Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the children Against which his wrath hath been kindled.
Jer 7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith Jehovah, They have set their abominations in the house Which is called by my name, to pollute it.
Jer 7:31 They have built the high places of Tophet, Which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, To burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, Which I commanded not, Which even came not into my mind.
Jer 7:32 Therefore behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, That it shall no more be called Tophet, Or the valley of the son of Hinnom, But the Valley of Slaughter; For they shall bury in Tophet till there be no room left.
Jer 7:33 And the dead bodies of this people shall be for meat To the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth; And none shall scare them away.
Jer 7:34 And I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, And from the streets of Jerusalem, The voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, The voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; For the land shall be desolate.
Jer 8:1 ¶ At that time, saith Jehovah, Shall the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of the princes, The bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, And the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Be cast forth from their graves;
Jer 8:2 And they shall be spread before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, Which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked; Which they have consulted and have worshipped; They shall not be gathered, nor be buried; They shall be as dung upon the face of the ground.
Jer 8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life By all the residue of them that remain of this evil race, Which remain in all the places whither I have driver them, Saith Jehovah of hosts.
Jer 8:4 ¶ Thou shalt also say to them, Thus saith Jehovah, Doth a man fall, and not rise again? Doth one turn aside from the way, and not return,
Jer 8:5 Why then hath this people, Why hath Jerusalem, completely revolted? They hold fast deceit; They refuse to return.
Jer 8:6 I have listened and heard, But they speak not aright; No one repenteth of his wickedness, Saying, "What have I done?" Every one runneth at full speed in his rebellion, As a horse rusheth to the battle.
Jer 8:7 Even the stork in the heavens knoweth her times, And the turtle–dove and the swallow and the crane observe the season of their coming, But my people regard not the laws of Jehovah.
Jer 8:8 How is it that ye say, "We are wise, We possess the law of Jehovah"? Behold, the false pen of the scribes Hath turned it into falsehood.
Jer 8:9 The wise men shall be confounded; They shall be dismayed and ensnared; Behold, they have rejected the word of Jehovah, And what wisdom is there in them?
Jer 8:10 Therefore will I give their wives to others, And their fields to plunderers. For from the least of them even to the greatest, Every one is greedy of gain, Prophet and priest alike, Every one of them practiseth deceit.
Jer 8:11 They heal the wound of my people slightly, Saying, Peace! peace! when there is no peace.
Jer 8:12 Are they ashamed, that they have done abominable things? Nay, they are not at all ashamed; They know not how to blush. Therefore shall they fall with them that fall; At the time when I punish them, They shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.
Jer 8:13 ¶ I will utterly consume them, saith Jehovah; There shall be no grapes on the vine, Nor shall there be from the fig–tree; Even the leaf shall be withered; For I will send those that shall overrun them.
Jer 8:14 "Why do we remain here?" [shall they say.] "Assemble yourselves and let us go into the fortified cities. And let us there wait in silence! For Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, And given us the water of hemlock to drink, Because we have sinned against Jehovah.
Jer 8:15 We look for peace, but no good cometh; For a time of deliverance, and behold, terror!"
Jer 8:16 From Dan is heard the snorting of their horses, At the sound of the neighing of their steeds the whole land trembleth; They come and devour the land, and all that is in it; The city, and them that dwell therein.
Jer 8:17 Behold I send against you serpents, Basilisks, which cannot be charmed, And they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
Jer 8:18 O where is consolation for my sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
Jer 8:19 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people from a far country! "Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is her King there no more?" Why then have they provoked me by their graven images, And their foreign vanities?
Jer 8:20 The harvest is passed, the summer is ended, And we are not delivered.
Jer 8:21 For the wound of the daughter of my people am I wounded; I mourn; amazement hath taken hold of me.
Jer 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then are not the wounds of my people healed?
Jer 9:1 ¶ O that my head were waters, And mine eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jer 9:2 O that I had a traveller’s lodge in the wilderness, That I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers; An assembly of revolters.
Jer 9:3 They bend their tongues, like their bows, for lies, And not by truth do they grow mighty in the earth; They proceed from wickedness to wickedness, And have no regard to me, saith Jehovah.
Jer 9:4 Be on your guard each one against his neighbor, And trust ye not in any brother; For every brother will supplant, And every neighbor will slander.
Jer 9:5 They deceive every one his neighbor, And do not speak the truth; They have accustomed their tongues to speak lies; They weary themselves in doing iniquity.
Jer 9:6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit, [O prophet!] Through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.
Jer 9:7 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold I will melt them and try them; For what else can I do on account of the daughter of my people?
Jer 9:8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; Every one of them speaketh treachery; With their mouth they speak peace to their neighbor, But in their heart they lay snares for him.
Jer 9:9 Shall I not punish them for these things? saith Jehovah; Shall I not be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jer 9:10 For the mountains will I lift up a weeping and wailing, And for the pastures of the plains a lamentation, For they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; No more is heard the voice of the cattle; Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled, and are gone.
Jer 9:11 I will make Jerusalem heaps of stones, The dwelling–place of jackals; And I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Jer 9:12 ¶ Who is the wise man, that he may understand this, And he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it? Why is it that the land perisheth, That it is burned up like a desert, which none passeth through?
Jer 9:13 Jehovah himself hath said: It is because they have forsaken my law, Which I set before them, And have not hearkened to my voice, Nor walked according to it;
Jer 9:14 But have walked after the obstinacy of their own heart, And after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.
Jer 9:15 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, And give them water of hemlock to drink.
Jer 9:16 I will also scatter them among nations Which neither they nor their fathers have known, And I will send after them the sword, Till I have made an end of them.
Jer 9:17 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, And send to the skilful ones, that they may come;
Jer 9:18 Let them make haste, and lift up a wailing for us, That our eyes may run down with tears, And our eyelids gush forth with waters.
Jer 9:19 Behold, a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: "How are we spoiled! How are we put to shame! We must leave our native land; They have cast down our habitations."
Jer 9:20 Hear, O ye women, the word of Jehovah! Let your ear receive the word of his mouth! Teach your daughters a lamentation, And every one her companion a mournful dirge!
Jer 9:21 For death cometh in through our windows, It entereth our palaces; It cutteth off the children from the street, And the young men from the public places.
Jer 9:22 Declare it, saith Jehovah! The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, And as the handful behind the reaper, Which none gathereth up.
Jer 9:23 ¶ Thus saith Jehovah: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty glory in his might, Nor let the rich glory in his riches!
Jer 9:24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, That he hath regard to me, and knoweth me, That I am Jehovah, who exercise loving–kindness, Justice, and righteousness upon the earth; For in these do I delight, saith Jehovah.
Jer 9:25 Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, That I will punish all the circumcised with the uncircumcised,
Jer 9:26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, And the sons of Ammon and Moab, And all with shaven cheeks, that dwell in the wilderness. For all the nations are uncircumcised, And all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.
Jer 10:1 ¶ Hear ye the word which Jehovah speaketh to you, O house of Israel!
Jer 10:2 Thus saith Jehovah: Conform ye not to the way of the heathen, And be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens, Because the heathen are dismayed at them!
Jer 10:3 The customs of the nations are vanity. For a tree of the wood is cut down, It is wrought by the hands of the artificer with the axe,
Jer 10:4 It is decked with silver and gold, And with nails and with hammers is it fastened, That it may not totter.
Jer 10:5 They are like a turned palm–tree pillar, and cannot speak; They must be borne by men, for they cannot walk. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot hurt, Nor is it in their power to do good.
Jer 10:6 There is none like thee, O Jehovah! Thou art great, And great is thy name by mighty deeds.
Jer 10:7 Who shall not fear thee, O king of nations, For to thee doth it belong! For among all the wise men of the nations, And in all their kingdoms, there is none like thee.
Jer 10:8 They are all brutish and without understanding; A doctrine of vanities is the stock.
Jer 10:9 Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, And gold from Uphaz, The work of the artificer and the founder; Blue and purple is their clothing; The work of the skilful is it all.
Jer 10:10 But Jehovah is the true God, He is the living God, and an everlasting king; At his wrath the earth trembleth, And the nations are not able to abide his indignation.
Jer 10:11 [Thus shall ye say to them: The gods, that have not made the heavens and the earth, Shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.]
Jer 10:12 He made the earth by his power; He established the world by his wisdom, And by his understanding he spread out the heavens.
Jer 10:13 When he uttereth his voice there is an abundance of water in the heavens; He causeth clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; He maketh lightnings with rain; He bringeth the wind from his storehouses.
Jer 10:14 Brutish is every one who hath not this knowledge; By his image is every founder put to shame, For his molten–work is deceit; There is no breath in it.
Jer 10:15 They are vanity, deceptive work; In the time of their punishment shall they perish.
Jer 10:16 Not like them is He who is the portion of Jacob; He is the former of all things, And Israel is his allotted inheritance; Jehovah of hosts is his name.
Jer 10:17 ¶ Gather up thy goods out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress!
Jer 10:18 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will sling forth the inhabitants of the land at this time; I will distress them, so that they shall be taken.
Jer 10:19 "Ah me! my wound!" [saith the daughter of Zion;]"My bruise is deadly; Yet I say, This is my affliction, and I must bear it!
Jer 10:20 My tent is torn down, And all my cords broken. My children are gone forth from me, and are no more; There is none to stretch forth my tent any more, Or to set up my curtains.
Jer 10:21 For the shepherds have become brutish; They have not sought Jehovah; Therefore have they not prospered, And all their flock is dispersed."
Jer 10:22 [Hark!] the sound of tiding! Behold it cometh, And a great tumult from the land of the North, To make the cities of Judah desolate, A dwelling–place for jackals.
Jer 10:23 "I know, O Jehovah, that the way of a man is not within his power, That it is not within the power of a man that walketh to establish his steps.
Jer 10:24 Chasten me, O Jehovah, but in measure; Not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing!
Jer 10:25 Pour out thy wrath on the nations which acknowledge thee not, And on the kingdoms which call not on thy name! For they have devoured Jacob; They have devoured and consumed him, And laid waste his dwelling–place."
Jer 11:1 ¶ The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying:
Jer 11:2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, And speak ye to the men of Judah, And the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jer 11:3 And say thou to them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Cursed is the man who will not obey the words of this covenant,
Jer 11:4 Which I commanded your fathers, When I brought them forth from the land of Egypt, From the iron furnace, saying, "Obey ye my voice, And do all which I command you; So shall ye be my people, And I will be your God;
Jer 11:5 So that I may perform the oath, Which I made to your fathers, To give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day." Then answered I, and said, So may it be, O Jehovah!
Jer 11:6 Then said Jehovah to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, And the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them!
Jer 11:7 For I have earnestly admonished your fathers, From the time when I brought them up from the land of Egypt to this day, Rising early and admonishing them, saying, "Obey ye my voice!"
Jer 11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, But walked every one in the obstinacy of his evil heart; Therefore have I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, Which I commanded them to obey, And they obeyed not.
Jer 11:9 Jehovah also said to me: A conspiracy hath been found among the men of Judah, And the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jer 11:10 They turn back to the iniquities of their forefathers, Who refused to hearken to my words; They go after strange gods and serve them; The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant Which I made with their fathers.
Jer 11:11 ¶ Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold I bring upon them a calamity, From which they shall not be able to escape; And though they cry to me, I will not hear them.
Jer 11:12 Then may the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go, And cry to the gods to whom they burn incense; But they shall not save them at all in the time of their calamity.
Jer 11:13 For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah! According to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to a thing of shame, Altars for burning incense to Baal.
Jer 11:14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, Nor lift up a cry or a prayer for them; For I will not hear when they cry to me On account of their calamity.
Jer 11:15 What hath my beloved to do in my house, While many pollute it with wickedness? The holy flesh shall pass away from thee, For when thou doest evil, thou rejoicest.
Jer 11:16 Jehovah hath called thee an olive–tree, Green, fair, and of goodly fruit; With the noise of a great crackling doth he kindle a fire upon it, And the branches of it shall be broken.
Jer 11:17 For Jehovah of hosts, who planted thee, Hath pronounced evil against thee, On account of the wickedness of the house of Israel and of Judah, which they have committed In provoking me to anger by burning incense to Baal.
Jer 11:18 ¶ Jehovah made it known to me, and I knew it; Thou didst show me their machinations!
Jer 11:19 For I was like a tame lamb, that is led to the slaughter, And knew not that they had formed plots against me, [saying,] "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, Let us cut him off from the land of the living, That his name may no more be remembered!"
Jer 11:20 But, O Jehovah of hosts, the righteous judge, Who triest the reins and the heart, I shall see thy vengeance on them, For to thee have I revealed my cause!
Jer 11:21 Therefore thus saith Jehovah against the men of Anathoth, Who seek thy life, and say, "Prophesy not in the name of Jehovah, Lest thou die by our hand!"
Jer 11:22 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will punish them; Their young men shall die by the sword; Their sons and their daughters shall die by famine,
Jer 11:23 There shall be none of them left; For I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, At the time of their punishment.
Jer 12:1 ¶ Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee, Yet will I enter into controversy with thee. Why doth the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all the men of treachery at ease?
Jer 12:2 Thou hast planted them; yea, they have taken root; They grow, yea, they bring forth fruit; Thou art near to their mouth, But far from their hearts.
Jer 12:3 But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; Thou hast seen me, and tried my heart, Whether it be devoted to thee. Tear them away, as sheep for slaughter; Separate them for the day of slaughter!
Jer 12:4 How long shall the land mourn, And the grass of every field wither? For the wickedness of them that dwell therein, The beasts are consumed, and the birds; For they say, "He will not see our latter end."
Jer 12:5 If thou hast run with footmen, and they have wearied thee, Then how canst thou contend with horses? If it be so with thee in a land of peace, in which thou art secure, What wilt thou do in the glory of Jordan?
Jer 12:6 For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, Even these are treacherous toward thee, And raise a full cry after thee; Trust them not, though they speak fair words to thee!
Jer 12:7 ¶ I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my inheritance, I have given the darling of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Jer 12:8 My inheritance is become to me like a lion of the forest; She lifteth up her voice against me; Therefore do I hate her.
Jer 12:9 A rapacious beast, a hyena, is my inheritance become to me; Therefore shall the rapacious beasts rush upon her on all sides. Come, gather all the beasts of the field, Bring them to devour!
Jer 12:10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; They have trodden my portion under foot; My pleasant portion have they made a desolate wilderness.
Jer 12:11 They have made it a desolation; Desolate it mourneth on account of me; The whole land is desolate, Because no man layeth my word to heart.
Jer 12:12 Upon all the high places in the desert do the plunderers come; Behold, the sword of Jehovah devoureth from one end of the land to the other; No man hath peace.
Jer 12:13 They sow wheat, but they reap thorns; They weary themselves, and are not profited; They shall be ashamed of their harvest, Because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
Jer 12:14 ¶ Thus saith Jehovah against all my evil neighbors, Who seize the inheritance which I gave my people, Israel: Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, And the house of Judah will I pluck out from among them.
Jer 12:15 Yet after I have plucked them out of their land, I will again have compassion on them, and bring them back, Every one to his own possession, And every one to his own land.
Jer 12:16 And if they will indeed learn the ways of my people, And swear by my name, saying, As Jehovah liveth! As they taught my people to swear by Baal, Then shall they be built up in the midst of my people;
Jer 12:17 But if they will not hearken, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith Jehovah.
Jer 13:1 ¶ Thus saith Jehovah to me: Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it on thy loins, and put it not into water!
Jer 13:2 So I got a girdle according to the word of Jehovah, and put it on my loins.
Jer 13:3 Then the word of Jehovah came to me the second time, saying,
Jer 13:4 Take the girdle which thou hast gotten, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
Jer 13:5 So I went and hid it near the Euphrates, as Jehovah commanded me.
Jer 13:6 And after many days Jehovah said to me. Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take thence the girdle which I commanded thee to hide there.
Jer 13:7 Then I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hidden it; and, behold, the girdle was marred, so that it was good for nothing.
Jer 13:8 Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:––
Jer 13:9 Thus saith Jehovah: After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, And the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jer 13:10 This evil people, Who refuse to hearken to my words, Who walk after the obstinacy of their heart, And walk after strange gods, To serve them and to worship them, Shall be like this girdle, Which is good for nothing.
Jer 13:11 For as a girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, So have I caused to cleave to me the whole house of Israel, And the whole house of Judah, saith Jehovah, That they might be to me a people, And a name, and a praise, and a glory; But they hearkened not to me.
Jer 13:12 ¶ Then shalt thou speak to them in this manner. Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Every flagon shall be filled with wine. And they will say to thee, "Do we not know that every flagon shall be filled with wine?"
Jer 13:13 Then shalt thou say to them, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, And the kings that sit upon David’s throne, And the priests, and the prophets, And all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
Jer 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, Even fathers and children together, saith Jehovah; I will not pity, nor spare, Nor show mercy, so as not to destroy them.
Jer 13:15 Hear ye, and attend! be not lifted up! For Jehovah speaketh.
Jer 13:16 Give glory to Jehovah, your God, Before he bring darkness, And your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, And, while ye look for light, He turn it into deathlike shade, And make it gross darkness.
Jer 13:17 But if ye will not hear, I will mourn in secret places for your pride, I will weep continually, And my eyes shall run down with tears, Because the flock of Jehovah is carried away captive.
Jer 13:18 Say to the king and to the queen, Sit ye down upon the ground, For your beautiful crown shall fall from your heads.
Jer 13:19 The cities of the South are shut up, and none openeth them; Judah is carried away captive, all of it, Every man of it is carried away captive.
Jer 13:20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the North! Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
Jer 13:21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? For thou thyself hast taught them to be lords over thee. Shall not sorrows seize thee, as a woman in travail?
Jer 13:22 ¶ And if thou say in thine heart, "Wherefore are these things coming upon me?" For the greatness of thy iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, And thy heels made bare.
Jer 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, Or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, Who have been accustomed to do evil.
Jer 13:24 Therefore will I scatter you like stubble, Which passeth away before the wind of the desert.
Jer 13:25 This is thy lot, The portion measured out for thee by me, saith Jehovah, Because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Jer 13:26 Therefore will I lift up thy skirts over thy head, So that thy shame shall be seen.
Jer 13:27 Thine adulteries, thy neighings, The lewdness of thy whoredom on the hills, in the fields, All thy abominations, have I seen. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem! How long ere thou wilt become pure!
Jer 14:1 ¶ The word of Jehovah, which came to Jeremiah concerning a drought.
Jer 14:2 Judah mourneth, And the gates thereof languish; They are in deep mourning upon the ground. And the cry of Jerusalem goeth up.
Jer 14:3 The nobles send their younger ones for water; They come to the wells, they find none; They return with their vessels empty; They are ashamed and confounded; They cover their heads.
Jer 14:4 Because of the ground, which is in consternation, No rain falling upon the earth, The husbandmen are ashamed, They hide their heads.
Jer 14:5 Even the hind in the field is delivered, And deserteth her young, Because there is no grass.
Jer 14:6 The wild asses stand upon the hills, They snuff up the wind like jackals; Their eyes fail, Because there is no grass.
Jer 14:7 Though our iniquities testify against us, Yet do thou, O Jehovah, act from a regard to thine own name. For our transgressions have been many; We have sinned against thee.
Jer 14:8 O thou hope of Israel, His saviour in the time of trouble, Why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, As a traveller who spreadeth his tent to pass the night?
Jer 14:9 Why wilt thou be as a man that is amazed, As a hero that cannot save? Thou art in the midst of us, O Jehovah, And we are called by thy name; Do not forsake us!
Jer 14:10 ¶ Thus saith Jehovah concerning this people: Thus they love to wander, They restrain not their feet; Therefore Jehovah doth not accept them; Now will he remember their iniquities, And punish their sins.
Jer 14:11 Then said Jehovah to me: Pray not for this people for their good!
Jer 14:12 Though they fast, I will not hear their cry; Though they offer burnt–offerings and flour–offerings, I will not accept them; But by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence, I will make an end of them.
Jer 14:13 Then said I, Alas! O Lord Jehovah! Behold, the prophets say to them, "Ye shall not see the sword, Nor shall famine come upon you; But Jehovah will give you lasting peace in this place."
Jer 14:14 Then said Jehovah to me: The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I have not sent them, nor commissioned them, nor spoken to them; A false vision, and divination, and vanity, And the fraud of their hearts, do they prophesy to you.
Jer 14:15 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets Who prophesy in my name, though I sent them not, But who themselves say, "The sword and famine shall not be in this land": By the sword and by famine shall those prophets be consumed.
Jer 14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy Shall be cast forth in the streets of Jerusalem By means of famine and the sword; And they shall have none to bury them,––They, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters; For I will pour their wickedness upon them.
Jer 14:17 ¶ Thus also shalt thou speak to them: My eyes shall run down with tears night and day; They shall not cease; For a deep wound hath she received, The virgin daughter of my people, A deadly blow.
Jer 14:18 If I go forth into the fields, Then behold them that are slain by the sword! And if I enter the city, Then behold them that pine with famine! Both prophet and priest wander about the land, they know not whither.
Jer 14:19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? Doth thy soul abhor Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, so that there is no healing for us! We look for peace, and there is no good, For a time of healing, and behold, terror!
Jer 14:20 We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, And the iniquity of our fathers; For we have sinned against thee.
Jer 14:21 Do not spurn us, for thy name’s sake! Do not dishonor thy glorious throne! Call to mind, break not, thy covenant with us!
Jer 14:22 Are there among the vanities of the nations any that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou he, O Jehovah, our God? Therefore in thee will we trust, For thou hast made all these things!
Jer 15:1 ¶ Then said Jehovah to me: Though Moses and Samuel should stand before me, Yet would I not be reconciled to this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go forth!
Jer 15:2 And if they say to thee, "Whither shall we go forth?" Then say thou to them, Thus saith Jehovah: They that are for the pestilence, to the pestilence, And they that are for the sword, to the sword. And they that are for famine, to famine, And they that are for captivity, to captivity.
Jer 15:3 I will commission against them four woes, saith Jehovah! The sword to slay, And the dogs to drag about, And the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth, To devour and destroy.
Jer 15:4 I will cause them to be harassed in all the kingdoms of the earth, On account of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, On account of all which he did in Jerusalem.
Jer 15:5 For who will have pity on thee, O Jerusalem? Or who condole with thee? Or who turn aside to ask thee of thy welfare?
Jer 15:6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith Jehovah; Thou hast gone backward; Therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary of relenting.
Jer 15:7 I will scatter them with a winnowing–fan through the gates of the land; I will bereave them of their sons; I will destroy my people, Since they return not from their ways.
Jer 15:8 Their widows shall be more numerous than the sand of the sea; Against the mother of the young men do I bring a spoiler at noonday; Suddenly will I bring alarm and terrors upon them.
Jer 15:9 She, that hath borne seven, languisheth; She is ready to expire; Her sun goeth down while it is yet day; She is ashamed and confounded. Their remnant will I also give to the sword Before their enemies, saith Jehovah.
Jer 15:10 ¶ Alas for me, my mother, that thou hast borne me, To live in strife and contention with all the land! I have neither borrowed nor lent money, Yet doth every one curse me!
Jer 15:11 Jehovah said: Surely I will deliver and prosper thee, Surely, in the time of trouble and in the time of distress, Will I cause the adversary to be a suppliant to thee.
Jer 15:12 Who is able to break iron, Iron from the North, and brass?
Jer 15:13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give for spoil, without price, On account of all thy sins in all thy borders.
Jer 15:14 I will cause them to pass with thy enemies into a land which thou knowest not; For a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn against you.
Jer 15:15 ¶ Thou, O Jehovah, knowest all my concerns! O remember me, and have regard to me, And revenge me of my persecutors! Do not, through thy long–suffering, take me away! Consider that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke!
Jer 15:16 As soon as I found thy words, I devoured them; For thy words were the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts!
Jer 15:17 I have not sat in the assembly of them that made merry, nor rejoiced; On account of thy hand I have sat alone; For thou hast filled me with indignation.
Jer 15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, And my wound mortal, refusing to be healed? Thou hast been to me like a deceitful stream; Like waters that fail.
Jer 15:19 Then answered Jehovah thus: If thou wilt return, then will I restore thee, and thou shalt stand before me; And if thou wilt separate the precious from the vile, Thou shalt be as my mouth. They shall turn to thee, And thou shalt not turn to them.
Jer 15:20 I will make thee against this people a strong wall of brass; When they war against thee, they shall not prevail against thee, For I will be with thee to save thee, And to deliver thee, saith Jehovah.
Jer 15:21 I will rescue thee from the hand of the wicked, And I will redeem thee from the grasp of the violent.
Jer 16:1 ¶ The word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Jer 16:2 Take thee not a wife; Have no sons or daughters in this place!
Jer 16:3 For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and the daughters That are born in this place, And concerning their mothers that bore them, And concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
Jer 16:4 By deadly diseases shall they die; They shall not be lamented nor buried; They shall become dung upon the face of the earth; By the sword also and by famine shall they be consumed, And their carcasses shall be food for the birds of heaven And the beasts of the earth.
Jer 16:5 For thus saith Jehovah: Enter not into the house of wailing; Go not to lament; Comfort them not! For I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, My kindness and mercy.
Jer 16:6 The great and the small in this land shall die; They shall not be buried nor lamented; No one shall cut himself for them, Nor shall any one make himself bald for them.
Jer 16:7 Men shall not break bread for them in their grief, To comfort them for the dead, Nor give them the cup of consolation to drink, On account of a lost father or mother.
Jer 16:8 Neither enter thou into the house of feasting, To sit down with them to eat and to drink!
Jer 16:9 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am about to cause to cease from this place, Before your eyes, in your days, The voice of joy and the voice of mirth, The voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
Jer 16:10 ¶ And when thou shalt have declared to this people all these things, and they shall say to thee, "Why hath Jehovah pronounced against us all this great evil? What is our iniquity, and what our sin, which we have committed against Jehovah our God?"
Jer 16:11 Then shalt thou say to them: Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, And have walked after strange gods, And have served them and worshipped them, And have forsaken me, and not kept my law.
Jer 16:12 And ye yourselves have done worse than your fathers; For, behold, ye walk every one after the perverseness of his evil heart, And do not hearken to me.
Jer 16:13 Therefore will I cast you forth from this land Into a land unknown to you and to your fathers; And there shall ye serve strange gods day and night; For I will show you no favor.
Jer 16:14 ¶ Yet behold the days shall come, saith Jehovah, When men shall no more say, "As Jehovah liveth Who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,"
Jer 16:15 But, "As Jehovah liveth Who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the North, And from all the lands whither he had driven them." For I will bring them again into their own land, Which I gave to their fathers.
Jer 16:16 Behold, I will send many fishers, saith Jehovah, who shall fish them, And then will I send many hunters who shall hunt them From every mountain, and from every hill, and from the holes of the rocks.
Jer 16:17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways; They are not concealed from my view, Nor is their iniquity hidden from mine eyes.
Jer 16:18 And I will requite their former and their repeated iniquities and sins, Because they have polluted my land with carcasses offered to their idols, And filled my inheritance with their abominable things.
Jer 16:19 O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, My refuge in the day of distress! To thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, And shall say, "Truly our fathers inherited delusion, Vain and unprofitable things.
Jer 16:20 Shall one make for himself gods Which are no gods?"
Jer 16:21 Therefore, behold, I will this time cause them to feel, I will cause them to feel my hand and my might, And they shall know that my name is Jehovah.
Jer 17:1 ¶ The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, With the point of a diamond is it engraved Upon the tablet of their hearts, Upon the horns of their altars.
Jer 17:2 While their children remember the altars, and the images of Astarte, Near the green trees, And upon the high hills.
Jer 17:3 My mountain in the field! thy substance and all thy treasures will I give up for spoil; Thy high places for sin in all thy borders.
Jer 17:4 Thou shalt of thyself cease to possess the inheritance which I gave thee, And I will cause thee to serve thy enemies in a land which thou knowest not; For ye have kindled a fire in my anger, Which shall burn forever.
Jer 17:5 ¶ Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed be the man who trusteth in man, And maketh flesh his arm, And whose heart departeth from Jehovah!
Jer 17:6 He shall be like a poor wanderer in the desert, Who seeth not when good cometh, But dwelleth in the parched places of the desert, In a salt land, and uninhabited.
Jer 17:7 Blessed is the man who trusteth in Jehovah; Who in Jehovah placeth his hope!
Jer 17:8 He shall be like a tree planted by the water–side, That spreadeth out her roots by the stream, That feeleth not when the heat cometh, But whose leaf is green; That careth not in the year of drought, Nor ceaseth from yielding fruit.
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things; Yea, it is corrupt; who can know it?
Jer 17:10 I, Jehovah, search the heart, And try the reins, To give to every man according to his ways, And according to the fruit of his doings.
Jer 17:11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs which she hath not laid, So is he that getteth riches, and not by right; In the midst of his days shall he leave them, And in his latter end find himself a fool.
Jer 17:12 ¶ A glorious, lofty throne from the beginning Hath been the place of our sanctuary.
Jer 17:13 O thou hope of Israel, Jehovah! All that forsake thee shall be put to shame; Yea, all that depart from me shall be written in dust, Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water, they have forsaken Jehovah.
Jer 17:14 Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved; For thou art my praise!
Jer 17:15 Behold, they say to me, "Where is the word of Jehovah? Let it come to pass!"
Jer 17:16 I have not refused to follow thee, as thy shepherd, Neither have I desired the day of woe, as thou knowest! That which came from my lips hath been before thine eyes.
Jer 17:17 Be not thou a terror to me, Thou, my refuge in the day of distress! Let my persecutors be confounded, but let not me be confounded!
Jer 17:18 Let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed! Bring upon them the day of calamity, And destroy them with double destruction!
Jer 17:19 ¶ Thus said Jehovah to me: Go and stand in the people’s gate, Through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, And in all the gates of Jerusalem,
Jer 17:20 And say to them, Hear the word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, All Judah, and all ye who dwell at Jerusalem, Who enter in through these gates!
Jer 17:21 Thus saith Jehovah: Take heed to yourselves, And carry no burden on the sabbath–day, And bring none through the gates of Jerusalem.
Jer 17:22 Bear no burden from your houses on the sabbath–day, And do no kind of work; But keep ye holy the sabbath–day, As I commanded your fathers.
Jer 17:23 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, But made their necks stiff, and refused to hear, And refused to receive instruction.
Jer 17:24 If ye will now diligently hearken to me, saith Jehovah, And bring no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath–day, But keep holy the sabbath–day, Doing no work therein,
Jer 17:25 Then shall enter the gates of this city kings and princes, Who sit upon the throne of David, Riding in chariots and on horses, They and their chieftains, The men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; And this city shall be inhabited forever.
Jer 17:26 Then from the cities of Judah, and the places around Jerusalem, From the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, From the mountains, and from the South, Shall they come bringing burnt–offerings, and sacrifices, And flour–offerings, and incense, And bringing thank–offerings to the house of Jehovah.
Jer 17:27 But if ye will not hearken to me, To keep holy the sabbath–day, And to carry no burden through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath–day, Then will I kindle in her gates an unquenchable fire, Which shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Jer 18:1 ¶ The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying:
Jer 18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there will I cause thee to hear my words.
Jer 18:3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was at work at the wheel.
Jer 18:4 And the vessel which he was making of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he began anew and made it another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jer 18:5 Then came the word of Jehovah to me, saying:
Jer 18:6 Cannot I do after the manner of this potter With respect to you. O house of Israel, saith Jehovah? Behold, as the clay is in the hand of the potter, So are ye in my hand, O house of Israel!
Jer 18:7 Whenever I speak concerning a nation or a kingdom, That I will pluck it up, cast it down, or destroy it,
Jer 18:8 If that nation shall turn from its wickedness On account of which I threatened it, Then will I repent of the evil which I purposed to do to it.
Jer 18:9 And whenever I speak concerning a nation or a kingdom, That I will build it, or plant it,
Jer 18:10 And it shall do that which is evil in my sight, And not hearken to my voice, Then will I repent of the good with which I promised to bless them.
Jer 18:11 ¶ And now speak to the men of Judah, And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I am framing evil against you, And meditating a design against you; Return ye now every one from his evil way, And amend your ways and your doings.
Jer 18:12 But they say, "There is no remedy, For we will walk after our own devices, And we will practise every one the perverseness of his evil heart."
Jer 18:13 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Inquire ye now among the nations, Who hath heard such things as these? The virgin of Israel hath done a deed of horror.
Jer 18:14 Shall the snow from the rocks of Lebanon forsake my fields? Or shall the cold flowing waters, that come from afar, be dried up?
Jer 18:15 Yet my people have forgotten me, And burned incense to vanity; They stumble in their paths, the old ways, And walk in ways that have not been thrown up,
Jer 18:16 To make their land a desolation, A perpetual hissing; Every one that passeth through it shall be amazed, And shake his head.
Jer 18:17 I will scatter them before the enemy, as with the east wind; I will show them the back, and not the face, In the day of their calamity.
Jer 18:18 ¶ But they say, "Come, let us devise measures against Jeremiah; For the law shall not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet; Come, let us smite him with the tongue, And not give heed to any of his words."
Jer 18:19 Give heed to me, O Jehovah, And hear the voice of my adversaries!
Jer 18:20 Shall evil be returned for good? For they have digged a pit for me. Remember how I have stood before thee, To announce good to them, And to turn away thy wrath from them!
Jer 18:21 Therefore give thou up their sons to famine, And deliver them to the edge of the sword! Let their wives be childless and widows, Let their men be slain by pestilence, And their young men fall by the sword in battle!
Jer 18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, When thou shalt bring a troop upon them suddenly! For they have digged a pit to take me, And hidden snares for my feet.
Jer 18:23 Thou, O Jehovah, knowest all their plots against my life! Cover not their iniquity, And blot not out their sin from thy sight! But let them be overthrown before thee; Deal with them in the time of thy wrath!
Jer 19:1 ¶ Thus saith Jehovah: Go and buy an earthen bottle of the potter, And take with thee the elders of the people, And the elders of the priests,
Jer 19:2 And go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, At the entrance of the pottery–gate, And proclaim there the words Which I shall speak to thee.
Jer 19:3 Say, Hear the word of Jehovah, Ye kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am about to bring such an evil upon this place, That whoever heareth of it, his ears shall tingle.
Jer 19:4 For they have forsaken me, And have alienated this place, And have burned incense in it to strange gods, Which neither they, nor their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, And have filled this place with the blood of innocent children,
Jer 19:5 And have built high places to Baal, To burn their sons in the fire for burnt–offerings to Baal; Which I ordained not, and commanded not, And which never came into my mind.
Jer 19:6 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, saith Jehovah, When this place shall no more be called Tophet, Nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, But the valley of Slaughter.
Jer 19:7 For I will in this place bring to naught the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, And I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, And by the hands of them that seek their lives; And their dead bodies will I give for food To the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.
Jer 19:8 And I will make this city a wonder and a hissing; Every one that passeth by it shall wonder and hiss, On account of all its plagues.
Jer 19:9 For I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and of their daughters, Yea, the flesh of each other shall they eat, In the straitness and the distress With which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall press them.
Jer 19:10 ¶ Then break thou the bottle Before the eyes of the men that go with thee.
Jer 19:11 And say to them: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, As one breaks a potter’s vessel which cannot be made whole again; And they shall be buried in Tophet, till there is no room to bury.
Jer 19:12 Thus will I do to this place and to its inhabitants, saith Jehovah, And I will make this city itself like Tophet;
Jer 19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be unclean, like the place of Tophet, All the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, And poured out drink–offerings to strange gods.
Jer 19:14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, Whither Jehovah had sent him to prophesy, And stood in the court of the house of Jehovah, And said to all the people:
Jer 19:15 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am about to bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, All the evil which I have pronounced against it; For they have made their necks stiff, And refused to hearken to my words.
Jer 20:1 ¶ Now Pashur, the son of Immer, the priest, who was also chief overseer in the house of Jehovah, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
Jer 20:2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks, that were at the high gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Jehovah.
Jer 20:3 And on the next day Pashur took Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah to him, Jehovah calleth thee, not Pashur, but Magor–missabib [not Safety on every side, but Terror on every side].
Jer 20:4 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I am about to make thee a terror to thyself and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, thine eyes looking on; and all Judah will I give into the hand of the king of Babylon, who shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall smite them with the sword.
Jer 20:5 And I will give all the wealth of this city, and all its possessions, and all its precious things, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give, into the hand of their enemies, and they shall spoil them, and take them and carry them to Babylon.
Jer 20:6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thy house, shall go into captivity; thou shalt go to Babylon, and there shalt thou die, and there shalt thou be buried, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied falsely.
Jer 20:7 ¶ Thou didst persuade me, O Jehovah, and I was persuaded; Thou wast stronger than I, and didst prevail. But I am in derision daily, Every one mocketh me.
Jer 20:8 For whenever I speak, I cry out on account of violence, And complain of oppression; For the word of Jehovah bringeth upon me reproach, And daily derision.
Jer 20:9 So I say, I will no more make mention of him, Nor speak any more in his name; But his word is in my heart like a burning fire, shut up in my bones, And I am weary with forbearing, And I cannot refrain.
Jer 20:10 For I hear the slander of many, terror on every side; "Tell us something against him, and we will denounce him." All my familiar friends, they who leave not my side, [say,] "Perhaps he will be enticed, So that we may prevail against him, And take our revenge on him."
Jer 20:11 But Jehovah is on my side, like a mighty champion, Therefore shall my persecutors stumble, and not prevail; They shall be covered with shame, because they act not wisely,––With everlasting shame, that shall not be forgotten.
Jer 20:12 O Jehovah of hosts, thou that provest the righteous, That seest the reins and the heart, Let me see thy vengeance on them, For to thee have I laid open my cause!
Jer 20:13 Sing to Jehovah! Praise ye Jehovah! For he delivereth the oppressed From the hand of evil–doers.
Jer 20:14 ¶ Cursed be the day on which I was born; Let not the day on which my mother bore me be blessed!
Jer 20:15 Cursed be the man who brought the tidings to my father, Saying, "A son is born to thee," making him very glad!
Jer 20:16 Let that man be like the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and relented not; Let him hear an outcry in the morning, And an alarm at noontide;
Jer 20:17 Because he slew me not before I saw the light, So that my mother might have been my grave, And her womb have been great with me forever!
Jer 20:18 Wherefore came I forth from the womb, to see weariness and sorrow, And that my days might be consumed in shame?
Jer 21:1 ¶ The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashur, the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying:
Jer 21:2 Inquire, I pray thee, of Jehovah for us; for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, maketh war against us; whether Jehovah will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
Jer 21:3 And Jeremiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
Jer 21:4 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which ye fight against the king of Babylon and the Chaldaeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them in the midst of this city.
Jer 21:5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand, and with a strong arm, with anger and fury and great wrath.
Jer 21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; by a great pestilence shall they die.
Jer 21:7 And after this, saith Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those in the city who shall be left alive by the pestilence, the sword, and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life; and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword. He shall not spare them, nor have pity, nor show mercy.
Jer 21:8 ¶ And to this people thou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
Jer 21:9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence; but he that goeth out and surrendereth himself to the Chaldaeans that besiege you, he shall live, and bear away his life as a prey.
Jer 21:10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith Jehovah. It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
Jer 21:11 And to the house of the king of Judah: Hear ye the word of Jehovah,
Jer 21:12 O house of David! Thus saith Jehovah: Administer justice in season, and deliver him that is spoiled from the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings!
Jer 21:13 Behold, I am against thee, thou inhabitant of the valley, the rock of the plain, who sayest, "Who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter our habitations?"
Jer 21:14 But I will punish you with the fruit of your doings. I will kindle a fire in her forest, which shall consume all around her.
Jer 22:1 ¶ Thus said Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak these words.
Jer 22:2 Hear the word of Jehovah, thou king of Judah, That sittest upon the throne of David, Thou, and thy servants, and thy people, Who go in and out through these gates!
Jer 22:3 Thus saith Jehovah: Do justice and righteousness; Deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor; To the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow Do no wrong, do no violence, And shed no innocent blood in this place!
Jer 22:4 For if ye shall do this, Then shall there enter in through the gates of this house Kings, who shall sit upon the throne of David, Riding in chariots and upon horses, Each one with his servants and his people.
Jer 22:5 But if ye will not hearken to these words, By myself do I swear, saith Jehovah, That this house shall become a desolation.
Jer 22:6 For thus saith Jehovah to the house of the king of Judah: Gilead art thou to me, yea, the summit of Lebanon; Yet will I make thee a desert, As cities not inhabited.
Jer 22:7 I will appoint against thee destroyers, Every one with his weapons; And they shall cut down thy choice cedars, And cast them into the fire.
Jer 22:8 And many nations shall pass by this city, And they shall say one to another, "Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this great city?"
Jer 22:9 Then shall they answer: "Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God, And worshipped strange gods, And served them."
Jer 22:10 ¶ Weep not for him that is dead, Make no lamentation for him! Weep, weep ye for him who is gone away; For he shall return no more, Nor see his native land!
Jer 22:11 For thus saith Jehovah Concerning Shallum, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, Who reigned instead of Josiah his father, Who went forth from this place: He shall return to it no more;
Jer 22:12 But in the place whither they have led him captive shall he die, And shall see this land no more.
Jer 22:13 Woe to him that buildeth his house with injustice, And his upper apartments with wrong; That exacteth a man’s service without wages, And giveth him no recompense!
Jer 22:14 That saith, "I will build me a large house, And spacious apartments," And that cutteth out windows, And ceileth it with cedar, And painteth it with vermilion!
Jer 22:15 Shalt thou reign because thou rivallest others in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink? Yet he had regard to justice and equity; Therefore it was well, with him.
Jer 22:16 He maintained the cause of the poor and needy; Then was it well with him; Was not this to know me, saith Jehovah?
Jer 22:17 But thine eyes and thy heart are only upon thine own gain, And the shedding of innocent blood, And deeds of violence and oppression.
Jer 22:18 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Concerning Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They shall not lament for him, saying, "Alas, my brother!" or, "Alas, sister!" They shall not lament for him, saying, "Alas, lord!" or, "Alas, his glory!"
Jer 22:19 With the burial of an ass shall he be buried, Dragged along and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jer 22:20 ¶ Go thou up to Lebanon and cry, [O Jerusalem!] And upon Bashan lift up thy voice; Cry aloud from Abarim! For all thy lovers are fallen.
Jer 22:21 I spake to thee in thy prosperity, But thou saidst, "I will not hear." This hath been thy manner from thy youth; Thou hast not obeyed my voice.
Jer 22:22 The wind shall consume all thy shepherds, And thy lovers shall go into captivity; Then shalt thou be ashamed And confounded for all thy wickedness.
Jer 22:23 O thou that dwellest in Lebanon, That makest thy nest in cedars, How wretched shalt thou be, when anguish cometh upon thee, Pain, as of a woman in travail!
Jer 22:24 As I live, saith Jehovah, Thou Coniah, son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Though thou wert the signet upon my right hand, Even thence would I pluck thee!
Jer 22:25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, And into the hand of them that thou fearest, Even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, And into the hand of the Chaldaeans.
Jer 22:26 And I will cast thee forth, And thy mother that bore thee, Into a foreign land, Where ye were not born; And there shall ye die.
Jer 22:27 To the land to which they desire to return, Thither shall they not return.
Jer 22:28 "Is then this man Coniah a contemptible broken vessel? Is he a vessel which no man careth for? Wherefore are he and his offspring cast forth, And thrown into a land which they know not?"
Jer 22:29 O land, land, land, hear the word of Jehovah!
Jer 22:30 Thus saith Jehovah: Write ye this man childless, A man that shall not be prosperous through his life; For none of his offspring shall prosper, So as to sit on the throne of David, And reign hereafter in Judah.
Jer 23:1 ¶ Woe to the shepherds, Who lose and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith Jehovah.
Jer 23:2 For concerning the shepherds, the feeders of my people, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, And have not taken care of them. Behold, I am about to requite you For the evil of your doings, saith Jehovah.
Jer 23:3 But I will gather the remnant of my flock From all the countries whither I have driven them, And I will bring them back to their folds, And they shall be fruitful and increase.
Jer 23:4 And I will raise up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; They shall fear no more, nor be dismayed; Nor shall they be lost, saith Jehovah.
Jer 23:5 Behold, the days are coming, saith Jehovah, When I will raise up from David a righteous Branch, And a king shall reign and prosper, And shall maintain justice and equity in the land.
Jer 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, And Israel shall dwell securely; And this is the name which shall be given him, Jehovah–is–our–salvation.
Jer 23:7 Therefore, behold, the days shall come, saith Jehovah, When they shall no more say, "As Jehovah liveth Who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt!"
Jer 23:8 But, "As Jehovah liveth Who brought up and led the race of Israel from the north country, And from all the countries whither I had driven them!" And they shall dwell in their own land.
Jer 23:9 ¶ Concerning the Prophets. My heart is broken within me; All my bones tremble. I am become like a drunken man, Like a man whom wine hath overcome, Because of Jehovah, And because of his holy words.
Jer 23:10 For the land is full of adulteries; Because of a curse doth the land mourn; The pastures of the waste are dried up; For they run to do evil, And their might is without right.
Jer 23:11 Yea, both prophet and priest are profane; Even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
Jer 23:12 Therefore shall their way become as slippery places in the dark; They shall be driven on and fall therein; For I will bring evil upon them In the time of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
Jer 23:13 In the prophets of Samaria have I seen folly; They prophesy in the name of Baal, and cause my people Israel to err.
Jer 23:14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also have I seen a horrible thing; They commit adultery, and walk in falsehood; They strengthen the hands of evil–doers, So that none doth turn from his iniquity. They have all become to me as Sodom, And her inhabitants as Gomorrah.
Jer 23:15 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, And give them the water of hemlock to drink; For from the prophets of Jerusalem Hath profaneness gone forth into all the land.
Jer 23:16 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets; They lead you to vanity; They utter the vision of their own heart, And not from the mouth of Jehovah.
Jer 23:17 To them that despise me they say continually, "Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace"; And to every one that walketh after the perverseness of his heart, "No evil shall come upon you."
Jer 23:18 For who of them hath stood in the council of Jehovah, And hath seen and heard his word? Who hath listened to his word and heard it?
Jer 23:19 Behold a whirlwind from Jehovah goeth forth in fury, Even a rushing whirlwind; Upon the head of the wicked shall it rush.
Jer 23:20 The fierce anger of Jehovah shall not turn back, Until he shall have executed, until he shall have accomplished the purpose of his heart. In the latter days ye shall understand it fully.
Jer 23:21 I sent not these prophets, yet they ran; I spake not to them, yet they prophesied.
Jer 23:22 For if they had stood in my council, Then would they have caused my people to hear my words, And would have turned them from their evil way. And from the wickedness of their doings.
Jer 23:23 Am I a God near at hand, saith Jehovah, And not a God afar off?
Jer 23:24 Can any one hide himself in secret places, So that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah; Do I nor fill heaven and earth? saith Jehovah.
Jer 23:25 I have heard what the prophets say, Who prophesy falsehood in my name, Saying, "I have dreamed, I have dreamed."
Jer 23:26 How long shall this be In the heart of the prophets, who prophesy falsehood, The prophets of the deceit of their own heart,
Jer 23:27 Who think to cause my people to forget my name By the dreams which they relate one to another, As their fathers forgot my name through Baal?
Jer 23:28 The prophet who hath a dream, let him tell a dream; And he that hath my word, let him speak my word truly! What is the chaff to the wheat? saith Jehovah.
Jer 23:29 Is not my word like fire, saith Jehovah, And like a hammer, that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Jer 23:30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, That steal my words one from another.
Jer 23:31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, That take their tongues and utter oracles.
Jer 23:32 Behold, I am against the prophets of false dreams, saith Jehovah, Who tell them, and cause my people to err By their lies and their arrogance. I have not sent them, nor commanded them, And they shall not profit this people at all, saith Jehovah.
Jer 23:33 ¶ And when this people, or a prophet, or a priest Shall ask thee, saying, "What is the burden from Jehovah?" Then say thou to them, "What is the burden?" That I will cast you away, saith Jehovah.
Jer 23:34 And the prophet, the priest, and the people, Who shall say, "The burden of Jehovah," I will punish that man and his house.
Jer 23:35 Thus shall ye speak, one to another: "What hath Jehovah answered?" And, "What hath Jehovah spoken?"
Jer 23:36 And of a burden of Jehovah shall ye speak no more; Else shall every man’s word be his burden, Because ye pervert the words of the living God, Of Jehovah of hosts, our God.
Jer 23:37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: "What hath Jehovah answered thee?" And, "What hath Jehovah spoken?"
Jer 23:38 If ye shall say, "The burden of Jehovah," Then thus saith Jehovah: Because ye say, "The burden of Jehovah," Although I sent to you and said, Ye shall not say, "The burden of Jehovah,"
Jer 23:39 Therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, And I will cast you, and the city which I gave to your fathers, out of my presence;
Jer 23:40 And I will bring upon you an everlasting reproach, And a perpetual shame which shall not be forgotten.
Jer 24:1 ¶ Jehovah showed me this vision. Behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of Jehovah. This was after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the artificers, and the smiths, from Jerusalem, and had led them to Babylon.
Jer 24:2 One of the baskets contained very good figs, like those which are first ripe. The other contained very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.
Jer 24:3 And Jehovah said to me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: Figs; the good figs, exceedingly good; and the bad, exceedingly bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.
Jer 24:4 Then came the word of Jehovah to me, saying:
Jer 24:5 Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: As these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of Chaldaea for their good;
Jer 24:6 yea, I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
Jer 24:7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
Jer 24:8 And as the bad figs, which are so bad that they cannot be eaten, saith Jehovah, so will I make Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, those that are left in this land, and those that dwell in the land of Egypt;
Jer 24:9 and I will give them up to oppression and affliction in all the kingdoms of the earth; yea, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
Jer 24:10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they be consumed from the land, which I gave to them and to their fathers.
Jer 25:1 ¶ The word which came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon;
Jer 25:2 which Jeremiah the prophet spake to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:––
Jer 25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, for three and twenty years, the word of Jehovah hath come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
Jer 25:4 Also Jehovah hath sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
Jer 25:5 "Turn ye now," said they, "every one from your evil way, and from your evil doings, and ye shall dwell in the land which Jehovah gave to you and to your fathers for ever and ever.
Jer 25:6 And go not after strange gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt."
Jer 25:7 But ye have not hearkened to me, saith Jehovah, that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
Jer 25:8 ¶ Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not hearkened to my words,
Jer 25:9 behold, I will send and take all the nations of the North, saith Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and a perpetual desolation.
Jer 25:10 Yea, I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the mill–stones, and the light of the lamp.
Jer 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jer 25:12 But when seventy years shall have passed, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their iniquity, saith Jehovah, and the land of the Chaldaeans, and I will make it a perpetual desolation.
Jer 25:13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
Jer 25:14 For they, even they, shall be brought into subjection to many nations and great kings. I will render to them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
Jer 25:15 ¶ For thus hath Jehovah, the God of Israel, said to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand; and let all the nations to which I shall send thee drink of it.
Jer 25:16 Let them drink, and stagger, and become mad because of the sword which I am about to send among them.
Jer 25:17 So I took the cup from the hand of Jehovah, and gave it to all the nations to drink, to which Jehovah sent me;
Jer 25:18 to Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah, and to the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse; [as it is this day.]
Jer 25:19 To Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his servants, and to his princes, and to all his people,
Jer 25:20 and all the allied people; and to all the kings of the land of Uz, and to all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and to Askelon, and to Gaza, and to Ekron, and to the remnant of Ashdod;
Jer 25:21 to Edom, and to Moab, and to the children of Ammon;
Jer 25:22 and to all the kings of Tyre, and to all the kings of Sidon, and to the kings of the lands which are beyond the sea;
Jer 25:23 to Dedan, and to Tema, and to Buz, and to all that shave the cheek;
Jer 25:24 and to all the kings of Arabia, and to all the kings of the allied people who dwell in the desert;
Jer 25:25 and to all the kings of Zimri, and to all the kings of Elam, and to all the kings of Media;
Jer 25:26 and to all the kings of the North, those that are near, and those that are afar off with respect to each other, and to all the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the face of the ground; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Jer 25:27 And say to them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye and be drunken, and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword which I am about to send among you.
Jer 25:28 And if they refuse to take the cup from thy hand to drink, then say to them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ye shall surely drink!
Jer 25:29 For behold, upon the city which is called by my name I begin to bring evil; and shall ye go wholly unpunished? Ye shall not go unpunished; for I am about to call the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Jer 25:30 ¶ Therefore, prophesy against them all these words, and say to them:––Jehovah shall roar from on high, From his holy habitation shall he utter his voice; He shall roar aloud against his dwelling–place; A shout like that of vintagers shall he raise Against all the inhabitants of the earth.
Jer 25:31 An outcry shall reach to the ends of the earth; For Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations; He entereth into judgment with all flesh; The wicked will he give up to the sword, saith Jehovah.
Jer 25:32 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, And a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the extremities of the earth.
Jer 25:33 At that day shall the slain of Jehovah lie From one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; They shall not be lamented, nor gathered, nor buried; They shall be dung upon the ground.
Jer 25:34 Howl, O ye shepherds, and cry! Roll yourselves in the dust, ye leaders of the flock, For your time to be slaughtered has come! And I will scatter you, and ye shall fall like a goodly vessel.
Jer 25:35 The shepherds shall have no way to flee, Nor the leaders of the flock to escape.
Jer 25:36 [Hark!] the voice of the cry of the shepherds, And the wailing of the leaders of the flock, Because Jehovah layeth waste their pasture!
Jer 25:37 Yea, the peaceful pastures are destroyed Because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.
Jer 25:38 He hath left, like a lion, his covert; For their land is become desolate, Because of the wrath of the destroying sword, And because of the fierceness of his anger.
Jer 26:1 ¶ In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from Jehovah, saying:––
Jer 26:2 Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the court of the house of Jehovah, and speak to those who come from all the cities of Judah to worship in the house of Jehovah all the words which I have commanded thee to speak to them; abate not a word.
Jer 26:3 If peradventure they will hearken and turn every one from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of their evil doings.
Jer 26:4 And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith Jehovah: If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law which I have set before you,
Jer 26:5 to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent to you, rising early and sending, and ye have not hearkened,
Jer 26:6 then will I make this house like Shiloh, and this city will I make a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Jer 26:7 ¶ And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah.
Jer 26:8 And when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, and said, Thou shalt surely die!
Jer 26:9 Why dost thou prophesy in the name of Jehovah, and say, This house shall be as Shiloh, and this city shall be made desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were assembled together against Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.
Jer 26:10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, they went up from the king’s house to the house of Jehovah, and sat in the entrance of the new gate of the house of Jehovah.
Jer 26:11 Then spake the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying: This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
Jer 26:12 Then spake Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people, saying: Jehovah hath sent me to prophesy against this house, and against this city, all the words which ye have heard.
Jer 26:13 But now amend ye your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Jehovah, your God, and Jehovah will repent of the evil which he hath pronounced against you.
Jer 26:14 And as for me, behold, I am in your hands; do to me as it seemeth good and right in your eyes.
Jer 26:15 But know ye for certain that, if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and its inhabitants; for of a truth Jehovah hath sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.
Jer 26:16 ¶ Then said the princes and all the people to the priests and the prophets: This man is not worthy to die, for he hath spoken to us in the name of Jehovah, our God.
Jer 26:17 Certain elders of the land also rose up, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying:
Jer 26:18 Micah, the Morasthite, prophesied in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of stones, and the mountain of the house [of Jehovah] as the heights of a forest.
Jer 26:19 Did Hezekiah, king of Judah, and all Judah, put him to death? Did he not fear Jehovah, and beseech Jehovah, so that Jehovah repented of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Shall we then bring so great an evil upon ourselves?
Jer 26:20 There was also another man that prophesied in the name of Jehovah, Urijah, the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath–jearim, who prophesied against this city and this land, according to all the words of Jeremiah;
Jer 26:21 and when Jehoiakim the king, and all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death. But when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled and went into Egypt.
Jer 26:22 But Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt,
Jer 26:23 and they brought Urijah out of Egypt, and carried him to King Jehoiakim, who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
Jer 26:24 Nevertheless, the hand of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, was with Jeremiah, that he should not be delivered into the hand of the people, to be put to death.
Jer 27:1 ¶ In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Jehovah.
Jer 27:2 Thus said Jehovah to me: Make thee bands and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
Jer 27:3 and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Zidon, by the hands of the messengers that are come to Jerusalem, to Zedekiah, king of Judah.
Jer 27:4 And command them to say to their masters, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Thus shall ye say to your masters:
Jer 27:5 The earth, and the men and the beasts which are upon the earth, have I made by my great power and my outstretched arm, and I give it to whomsoever it seemeth meet to me.
Jer 27:6 And now I give all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; the beasts of the field also I give him to serve him.
Jer 27:7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his land, even his, shall come, and then shall many nations and great kings make him their servant.
Jer 27:8 And the nation and the kingdom that will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,––with the sword and with famine and with pestilence will I punish that nation, saith Jehovah, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Jer 27:9 Therefore hearken ye not to your prophets, and your diviners, and your dreamers, your soothsayers, and your sorcerers, who say to you, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon.
Jer 27:10 For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and that ye should perish.
Jer 27:11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith Jehovah, and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
Jer 27:12 ¶ And to Zedekiah, king of Judah, also, spake I according to all these words, and said: Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
Jer 27:13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jer 27:14 Therefore hearken not to the prophets, that say to you, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.
Jer 27:15 For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah; but they prophesy a lie in my name, that I may drive you out, and that ye may perish, ye and the prophets that prophesy to you.
Jer 27:16 To the priests, also, and to all the people; spake I, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hearken not to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, and say, Behold the vessels of the house of Jehovah shall be brought back from Babylon now shortly; for they prophesy a lie to you.
Jer 27:17 Hearken ye not to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a desolation?
Jer 27:18 But if they be indeed prophets, and if the word of Jehovah be with them, let them now make intercession to Jehovah of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.
Jer 27:19 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are let in this city,
Jer 27:20 which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
Jer 27:21 yea, thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem:
Jer 27:22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day when I shall visit them, saith Jehovah. Then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
Jer 28:1 ¶ And it came to pass in the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah, the son of Azur the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
Jer 28:2 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: "I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Jer 28:3 Within two full years will I bring again to this place all the vessels of the house of Jehovah, which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon took from this place, and carried to Babylon.
Jer 28:4 And Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the captives of Judah that went to Babylon, will I bring again to this place, saith Jehovah; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon."
Jer 28:5 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake to Hananiah the prophet, in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of Jehovah.
Jer 28:6 And Jeremiah the prophet said, Amen! So may Jehovah do! May Jehovah fulfill thy words which thou hast prophesied, and bring back the vessels of the house of Jehovah, and all the captives from Babylon to this place!
Jer 28:7 Nevertheless, hear now this word, which I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people.
Jer 28:8 The prophets who have been before me and before thee from ancient times have also prophesied against many nations, and against great kingdoms, of war, of calamity, and of pestilence.
Jer 28:9 The prophet who prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall he be known as a prophet whom Jehovah hath truly sent.
Jer 28:10 ¶ Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and broke it.
Jer 28:11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: In this manner will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, from the neck of all the nations, within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
Jer 28:12 Then came the word of Jehovah to Jeremiah, after that Hananiah
